Hello all previously I have shown how to list all contacts in your phone and in another post I showed how to programatically create a contact in android.
In today’s tutorial I will show you how to delete a contact in android programatically.
This simple code does that.
public static boolean deleteContact(Context ctx, String phone, String name) {
Uri contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phone));
Cursor cur = ctx.getContentResolver().query(contactUri, null, null, null, null);
try {
if (cur.moveToFirst()) {
do {
if (cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME)).equalsIgnoreCase(name)) {
String lookupKey = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.LOOKUP_KEY));
Uri uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_LOOKUP_URI, lookupKey);
ctx.getContentResolver().delete(uri, null, null);
return true;
}
} while (cur.moveToNext());
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getStackTrace());
}
return false;
}